Back to School

A full time Digital Media course for the next six months is sure to test my comfort zone. Going back to school certainly puts me out there and exposes me to a whole new world of experience.

At once it is a challenge to have mortgage repayments and meet the daily distractions of the modern family but also keep on top of the course work. So things are buzzing along at a frenetic rate around here, and keeping mindful and maintaining a positive grateful presence is even more crucial.

This weekend, just to add another layer of fuzz, features a wedding where my wife is one of the bridal party. So her exercise and preparations have reached a denouemont and she is leaving tonight for the big event. Today I have to get a haircut (it is longish and foppish to go with my student-look) and make sure I make the three hour drive to the little mountain village by lunchtime tomorrow for the ceremony. A big Italian wedding in the mountains - should be something impressive.

And being sober is liberating. Just that - i have time to study, have time to spend with the girls, have time to work on myself - like tonight, a house to myself and what would usually have happened would be a marathon drinking session, starting around eleven am.

Tonight I will rest and prepare, like all evenings are for these days. One time my wife had a conference and was away for five nights and I drank liters of wine and she came home to a blubbering wreck, my blood tests showed my liver was failing. I used to do that to myself - like put myself through a gruelling drinking expedition as though I was on some alcohol endurance test. It is not what life is about anymore. Stay sober and be good to yourself...